Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Jacques Menu <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help.
>>
>> In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within
>> Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment,
>> and organ sound is fine for that purpose.
>>
>> I got the surprise that transposing a voice for the oboe d’amore in A,
>> in Lully’s « Dormez beaux yeux » for the needs of our oboes band, lead
>> to quite modern music being heard...
>>
>> What would best suit my need is a way to counter-balance the effect of
>> \transpose in the \midi block. This way, one would get both the
>> printed score and the MIDI pitches alright, even for instruments
>> unknown to standard MIDI.
>>
>> Can that be done?
>
> That's what \transposition is for.  Look it up in the manual.

Note: as opposed to \transpose (completely different thing in both
semantics and syntax though looking rather similar).

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David Kastrup